General election forecast
Redcar
Predicted winner: Reform UK with 29.2% of the vote, a 0.7pp margin over Labour.
Predicted vote share
How the model expects this constituency to vote
Coloured number is the swing from the 2024 general election result.
Sitting MP
Anna Turley
- Party: Labour and Co-operative Party
- Tenure: 2.1 years (since 2024-07-04)
- Status: standing again
See also: Labour Tracker MP page · TheyWorkForYou
2024 general election result
What happened on 4 July 2024
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Turley | Labour and Co-operative Party | 15,663 | 41.0% |
| Jacob Young | Conservative and Unionist Party | 12,340 | 32.3% |
| John Davies | Reform UK | 7,216 | 18.9% |
| Chris Jones | Lib Dem | 1,542 | 4.0% |
| Ruth Hatton | Green Party | 1,279 | 3.3% |
| Gary Conlin | Social Democratic Party | 169 | 0.4% |
Source: Returning officer declaration
How accurate is the model here?
Our 2024 backtest for this constituency
We replayed the same model architecture against the 4 July 2024 general election using only the data a forecaster running the model in May 2024 would have known. Here's what it would have predicted for Redcar, and what actually happened.
Predicted
Actual on 4 July 2024
Positive gap = we predicted that party would win more share than they did. See the full GE backtest across all 650 seats for the model's national accuracy.
How this forecast was built
- GE2024 Baseline. Actual GE2024 result in Redcar
- National Swing (Strong Transition Model). Multiplicative bounded swing, losers shed in proportion to local share, gainers absorb pro-rata national gain. Replaces additive UNS.
- BES MRP Prior. Baseline blended with BES Wave 1-30 north_east prior at weight 5%
- English-identity floor. English 38.4% → Reform +2.0pp
- Age-structure adjustment. 65+ 22.6% → Reform +0.20pp, Con +0.08pp (BES-dampened)
- Normalise. Shares scaled to 100%